This article notes the town recently legalized liquor. Another article said a shipment of alcohol had just arrived. It's an isolated town of a few hundred people in the arctic tundra. What else is there to do?

ZAZ:This article notes the town recently legalized liquor. Another article said a shipment of alcohol had just arrived. It's an isolated town of a few hundred people in the arctic tundra. What else is there to do?

"Although these are individual 'one-off' actions, it continues to place Kimmirut and its residents under siege," Superintendent Hilton Smee said in a news release.So IOW there is no siege - it's just a violent town.

Police say it also highlights the need to ensure the safe handling and storage of firearms.You have to be kidding me.

Gotta love those informed comments under the article. "Three incidents [with four Mounties] since 2007? How is that Under Siege bluh bluh bluh."

It's a community of 400 people. Like, in the past 5 years, that's one Mountie shot at per 100 people. If that rate was Canada-wide, that would be almost 350,000 attempts on Mounties' lives in a half-decade. And 87,500 dead Mounties.

(Okay, it's not really fair to scale up from that small a number, but that should just illustrate how bad the town is. A bunch of schoolteachers left after the previous incident, the one where the attached houses were shot up, because they didn't feel safe in a little town where people get drunk and take pot-shots at cops. The NWT and Nunavut have a much higher gun homicide rate than the rest of Canada, and it's a continuing problem.)

TeDDD:(Okay, it's not really fair to scale up from that small a number, but that should just illustrate how bad the town is. A bunch of schoolteachers left after the previous incident, the one where the attached houses were shot up, because they didn't feel safe in a little town where people get drunk and take pot-shots at cops. The NWT and Nunavut have a much higher gun homicide rate than the rest of Canada, and it's a continuing problem.)

Install the internet, they can fill all that spare time taking shots at other people on Farq.

Highroller48:smitty04: A person needed an IQ far above average just to be accepted into the Air Force pilot training program and 20% of those washed out.

Wrong Bush. IIRC Dubya was in the National Guard, not the Air Force. All you need to get into the Guard is nothing better to do on the weekends.

Not when people were being drafted to go to Vietnam. Then you needed to be the son of a congressman with a lot of pull and connections to get into the national guard, and having a former senator as grandfather also helped. Poppy Bush on the other hand joined the airforce to fight in WWll the day he turned 18.